 | Stephen C. Manganiello - History - 2004 - 632 pages
...plants; So that to us no thing, no place is strange, While his fair bosom is the world's exchange. O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. DERBY, COUNTESS OF, SEE STANLEY, CHARLOTTE... | |
 | Conrad Brunström - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 220 pages
...Denham's standard of wholesome political moderation lifted from "Cooper's Hill" — the famous quatrain: O could I flow like thee and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without ore-flowing full."' Lines that neither "sing" nor "say" fail... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...mAPfl^^J ° ffeiflMAMWJUm^^if ft ' 8i^^ A IRS ° : ffi oj m&m£ft%m <J*V6UJ> ('Cooper's Hill') - 189-92 O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme. Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full. (John Dryden, 163 1-1700) 2.-$ if : 53 °... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 284 pages
...extended this wish to what became a classic statement about neoclassical versification and landscape: Oh could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great...theme! Though deep, yet, clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without overflowing full. [1655, 1668: 185-92]™ The first version... | |
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O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full. 
